Love Your Life: Love Your Life: Midlife Reinvention, Emotional Regulation, & Parenting

You know how, when you buy something new you get a manual?  Well guess what? We have manuals for the relationships in our lives too.  We think people should do or say certain things because of who they are (our spouse, our parent, our child, etc..).  This week's episode will help you see who you have manuals for, how they may be creating stress for you, and how to let them go.     ⭐️Find all link...

What is a good enough marriage and are you in one? Listen in to this discussion with divorce lawyer Sonia Frontera as we discuss it all....and give you tools for wherever you are on your journey.  I loved connecting with Sonia and wanted to bring you this conversation on relationships and patterns during Domestic Violence Awareness Month.     ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned in the show n...

Have you ever had that experience where your body does one thing before your brain catches up? This happened to me at the hairdresser last week and it inspired me to record this podcast. The quick tips and practices I share in this week's episode have been fundamental for me in breaking patterns in my life: conscious and unconscious.      ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned in the show notes...

Do you text your grown ass husband a reminder that it's his mom's birthday? or that he has a dentist appointment? And then wonder why you feel so tired (and pissy?) Listen in because I explain what the invisible workload of women is, why we take it on, and how to start feeling better today. Please share this episode with one other tired women out there. Together we can!   ⭐️Find all links and res...

This is my magical skill.  Helping women determine how to feel better and then to help them take the small daily steps to feel better.  Now. Today. Part of this involves neuroplasticity and part of it involves human nature.  Leave those parts to me.  For you, choose the areas of your life where you feel unsettled, unhappy, overwhelmed, stressed, or un fulfilled and listen in.     ⭐️Find all links...

Do you ever stop to wonder if life has to be this hard? How we are making our lives harder? If things need to be this difficult? Heavy? Dramatic? As a behavioral coach, I am constantly studying and examining the things we routinely do to see if there's a hack, a workaround, an easier way.  There always is, dear warrior. Today I bring you four ways we make our lives harder and solutions to stop.  T...

What is your best life?  How can you live your best life?  Listen in to learn how Glennon Doyle's real life story impacted me to make this podcast and to change how I'm showing up for my sons, the middle school girls I work with, and my clients.  I help people every day live their best life and I'd like to help you to.  Start with this episode.  In this week's show, I give action steps to move tow...

Calling all of my women warriors.  It is time.  Time to stop this judgement of women.  Time to stop judging our female neighbors, friends, family members, or coworkers.  Better yet, I give you tools to take it one step further. Further than talking the talk #womensupportingwomen or #smashpatriarchy. Let's actually do it. How? Listen in!     ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned in the show not...

An instruction article on how to have fun in midlife? Yep! We high achiever, go get em' ladies need it. As recent podcasts by Glennon Doyle and Martha Beck have pointed out, we women are pretty unskilled at having fun for fun's sake.  There's a reason why I'm releasing this in women's health month. I believe our ability to age well depends on our ability to get better at having fun. Expert after e...

Dr. Alexandra Solomon is on the show to discuss what's in it for us. Us busy, midlife women. Why in the world would we ever want to take our sexy back?  Listen in warriors, because we answer "What's in it for you?"    Listen in as we dive into it all, including: - What is relational self awareness?  - How patriarchy and our sex education affects both girls and boys.  - How to tell if you've split...

Listen in to learn how I learned that the trick to life is not to do more or move faster.  Join me on this episode to learn how two massive life lessons of cancer and losing $480,000 dollars catapulted me into a midlife awakening.   ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned in the show notes here: https://smbwell.com/157 ⭐️See if the Love Your Life School is open for enrollment here: http://theLo...

Listen in as we bust myths about aging and menopause, offer real solutions that don't involve a prescription, the importance of self advocating, and to support you wherever you are on your journey. Dr. Mariza is leading the way as a thought leader around women's health and solutions and this episode is chock full of her expertise and knowledge. I'm thrilled for you to listen!!!  Please share this...

When was the last time you let yourself be bored? When was the last time you let yourself experience boredom? If you're anything like me and other humans, you go out of your way to not feel boredom. I would do most anything to avoid feeling the prickly discomfort of boredom. Sometimes that looked like me getting so busy I didn't have time to be bored. Other times it looked like me over doing some...

Hey dear warriors, I have a super simple message for you this week. I have taken my studies, work, and research of over 2 decades and more than 150 podcast episodes to distill it all into one powerful message for you. One super simple nugget.  A nugget that, if grasped and practiced, has the power to transform your life and your future.  Listen in. This episode is for you, dear one. You matter to...

I have wanted to have this star on the show for years, more than a decade to be honest!   She was instrumental in helping me establish boundaries in my relationships, with my biological family and my ex husband.  Because of her work, I feel free and strong in my relationships. She has helped me remove so much drama from my life and I am beyond thrilled to bring her knowledge, message, and expertis...

Overthinking paralyzes us, creates anxiety, and lets our child reactive brain run the show.  This week gift yourself FREEDOM from overthinking.  Susie used to be the best overthinker out there and today she shares her simple framework that's helped her break free so you can too!     ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned in the show notes here:  https://smbwell.com/152 ⭐️See if the Love Your L...

Today we have author and small business owner, Christen Bensten on the show.  While many of us have not experienced the level of childhood trauma or debilitating anxiety that Christen has experienced, we all have had childhood experiences that mark us. As a result of this, this interview is one you don't want to miss. This past year, Christen published her memoir, Starving.  In it she shares her d...

I'm often asked how I have so much energy. Listen in because I tell all today. I give my top energy hacks and then one super bonus tip just for you. Please do me a favor and share this with at least one other person today. The more of us feeling good and high vibe in our life, the more good and high vibe there is in this world.  Let's go warriors! You matter to me!   ⭐️Find all links and resource...

People pleasing isn't nice. It isn't nice to you and it's not nice to the other person. We are lying to ourselves,. saying yes when we mean no and we are setting our relationships up for disconnect and pissiness (is that a word?!) When I say yes in order to avoid conflict or because I want others to think I'm nice, I'm BSing myself and the other person. My BS leads to the land of BS (bitter and so...

What comes up for you when you hear the word boundary?  For some, it's a B word....b*tch. You think you are a b*tch if you set a boundary or if you set one you're being b*tchy. The reality is quite different. It's when I don't set boundaries that I act like a b*tch. When I don't set boundaries I feel misunderstood, used, resentful, angry....you name it (and it's not good). Please listen in and the...

How much drama do you bring into your conversations?  Oh warriors, I have brought a LOT of drama into my conversations over the years. Whether it's been in my delivery (jumping in too fast anyone?!)/...or beating around the bush in an odd passive agressive way... or being defensive ...or being overly bossy (I know, hard to believe!).... Help is here! Michelle Icard is on the show today to help us...

If you're anything like most right now, then you're feeling burnout big time right now.  And you want to beat burnout now. I get it. And I want you to beat it too! The world needs you! I made this episode for you because I know you don't have much time.... AND....you're probably sick of feeling how you're feeling. Listen in and then commit to these two things (they take under a minute). Action is...

You feeling it?  Excited to be getting back into it and exhausted about getting back into it?  Energized to see people and do things again and overwhelmed about seeing people and doing things again? YEP!  It's a both and!  And you're not alone. Tune in to this week's show to learn of 5 ways to start feeling better today.     ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned in the show notes here: https:/...

2020 has us feeling like we've been hit by a truck.  I don't know about you but that's not a feeling I like staying in. What to do? Here are my 3 quickest (and most effective!) mindfulness tools to learn how to feel better.     ⭐️Find all links and resources mentioned in the show notes here: https://smbwell.com/144 ⭐️See if the Love Your Life School is open for enrollment here: http://theLoveYou...

How often do you feel angry?  Resentful?  Pissed? Listen in because this podcast on forgiveness is for you (it's not what you think!) Listen in as I explain because what we think forgiveness is keeps us stuck and feeling crappy. This week we dive into two main pieces of forgiveness and forgiveness work so I can help you too: - Why we are reluctant to forgive - How to forgive     ⭐️Find all links...